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Originally Posted by Elphaba
I never claimed that women will not defend their hearth and home. jorgelito, you have only one war monger in your list of three. But then, she has an oil tanker named after her, which is her offspring of choice and in service to her "king".
Do you really believe that a mother defending her child is "war?" That is silly at any level and not worthy of the political arguments I have experienced of you in the past.
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Elph, I think you misunderstand me. My point was that war is not the sole purview of the male gender and that women are perfectly capable of "making war". I took exception to the claim that war is a male pastime.
Justine, Catherine the Great, Joan of Arc were all war mongers. I would argue that Golda Meir and Margaret Thatcher were certainly war mongers - Yom Kippur, Munich, Falklands were all done at their bidding.
The mother example was an illustration of a woman's capacity for violence, not to be taken as an exact analogy for war. That would indeed be silly to equate the two.
So, bottom line, I am not inclined to believe that this thought experiment regarding the eradication of war in hinged upon gender. I still think the possible solution lies at the more core foundation of our humanity.
Hope that clarifies thing Elph
